The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated—The On-Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center dead to…
Private Cloud: I’m Not Quite Dead Yet
Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train!
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing…
Cloud Adoption Myths and How to Deal With Them
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but “how fast.” Yet for many organizations, the journey to the cloud is anything but straightforward. As businesses strive to modernize legacy systems and embrace the agility of platforms like AWS, they often encounter a tangled web of complexity, visibility gaps, and operational silos.
Cloudy With a Chance of Governance: RBAC, Policy, and Improving Cloud Confidence
For many organizations, the decision of moving workloads to the cloud is all over but the shouting. The problem is that the shouting is pretty loud, and often centers around…
The Database Future Is in the Cloud
I’ve written before about the disappearing DBA, and how the database administration role itself is evolving. I believe the days of tuning indexes are ending, one page at a time.…
Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud?
This post is part one of two, taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. Did you know AWS…
Virtualization’s Future
During this series, we’ve looked at virtualization’s past, the challenges it has created, and how its evolution will allow it to continue to play a part in infrastructure delivery in…
The Best Way to Prepare for Emerging Technologies
Exciting new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things are dominating news cycles, but are they dominating federal IT environments? Maybe not.
Cloud Smart’s Success Relies on Smart Network Monitoring
The Office of Management and Budget’s Cloud Smart proposal signals both the end of an era and the beginning of new opportunities. The focus has shifted from ramping up cloud…
Is Cloud-Agnostic Even a Thing?
Before we can examine if cloud-agnostic is a thing, we must understand what it is in the first place. There are a multitude of opinions on this matter, but from…